REDGUM - "Poor Ned (Chords)" Tablature
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From: Waylon Smithers
Subject: Redgum - Poor Ned
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 11:23:44 +1000 (EST)
from Michael Hiltonwood i951612@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au
REDGUM - Poor Ned
D A G D
Eighteen-hundred & 78 was the year I remeber so well
D A G D
they put my father in an early grave and slung my mother in gaol
D A
now I don't know whats right or wrong
G D
but they hung Christ on nails
D A
6 kids at home & 2 still on the breast
G D
they wouldn't even give us bail
( CHORUS:
D A
Poor Ned, you're better off dead
G D
at least you'll get some peace of mind
D
you're out on the track
A
they're right on your back
G G
boy they're gonna hang you high )
You know I wrote a letter 'bout Stringy-Bark Creek
so they would understand
that I might be a bushranger
but I'm not a murdering man
I didn't want to shoot Kennedy
or that copper Lonnigan
he alone could have saved his life
by throwing down his gun
CHORUS
You know they took Ned Kelly
& they hung him in the Melbourne gaol
he fought so very bravely
dressed in iron mail
& no man single handed
can hope to break the bars
there's a thousand like Ned Kelly
who'll hoist the flag of stars
we sing...CHORUS
alternative keys - C G F C
or - G D C G
"Such is Life" - Ned Kelly
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